• TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 years ago

    I joined world because it was the little one, with like 100 active users according to the stats on the signup page. Hmph.

    • kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I joined lemmy.world on June 7th before it started to blow up. Crazy how much it has changed in 19 days.

      • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        The idea was to pick a smaller one to spread the load around and stop any one instance (at the time it looked like probably Beehaw or .ml) getting so big it became a “default” and thus accidentally centralising things and defeating the whole purpose of being here.

        I guess a lot of people had the same idea at roughly the same time as me though lol, and now we’re stuck with some serious unforseen federation issues due to sheer size. Therewasanattempt.

        • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I think I read about future plans for being able to move an account to a different instance? I don’t know if that’s a possibility but I would be willing to move to keep things spread out, or create a new account if it was necessary. I know a lot of people wouldn’t want that hassle but I’m glad to have a forum alternative to reddit and probably enough people feel that way to help make this work well into the future.